11 stories by "Boutayna Chokrane"
Within a Shadow, now in its world premiere from Lex the Movie in association with Red Theater, is an ambitious two-act dramedy that digs into the complexities of estrangement, cultural ident…
Chicago native Inda Craig-Galván takes theatergoers on a heart-to-heart journey in A Hit Dog Will Holler, a two-hander that underlines the trauma and resilience experienced by Black women…
Step into the Aztec Empire during the 16th century, on the eve of a new millennium. City Lit's world-premiere musical Aztec Human Sacrifice (written by Kingsley Day and Philip LaZebnik) tell…
A production with a promising premise is especially disappointing when it falls short. Unfortunately, that's the case with Uprising Theater's Decolonizing Sarah: A Hurricane Play. Amidst…
Some believe that those who suspect death is near can often feel it approaching, and in Invictus Theatre's rendition of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. senses his e…
Redtwist's rolling world premiere of The Great Khan with the National New Play Network couldn't be better timed. When Florida's Department of Education had just rejected an Advanced Placemen…
Mosque4Mosque is not a monolithic representation of the Arab American Muslim experience, and perhaps that's exactly the point. Written by Omer Abbas Salem and directed by Sophiyaa Nayar,…
The Twenty-Sided Tavern"written by David Andrew Greener Laws (aka DAGL), with game design by Sarah Davis Reynolds, and produced by David Carpenter, is an interactive, theatrical quest that i…
From "Baby I Need Your Loving" by the Four Tops to "Money" by Cardi B, everything about this chilling production, including the score, muddles the gap between past and present. […]
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Blank Theatre Company's production of The Wild Party (book, music, and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and based on the 1926 narrative poem by Joseph Moncure March), directed by Jason A. […]
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Despite its experimental environment, Chicago's drag world entered the pandemic with a lack of labor protections. COVID-19 exacerbated economic hardships, especially for queer performers of …
